Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.